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A police baton. To. Lift off. New problems for boeing a setback minutes after nor short of venture into space. Protest and building in chinas capital in the past few hours over delays and negotiating a new Constitution Police used tear gas and Water Cannons to disperse demonstrators in santiago it is the latest in the months long demonstrations have the social inequality on thursday Todays Congress approved a referendum on changing the constitution which dates back to the countrys military dictatorship lets bring in our latin america editor Lucien Newman she is joining us live from the capital santiago a lot of riot police there behind you to see whats happening there. Yes yes hello about 4050. 00 riot police on motorcycles plus some on foot have just made their way up this avenue this is one of the main thoroughfares of santiago theyve been playing cat and mouse with protesters now for hours and hours there are about 300 protesters just about 80 meters from where we are right now and